BIOGRAPHY
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LIKE FATHER LIKE SON
Written by Phil Drackett.
Stock no. 486260
Published by Clifton Books.
1st
1969.
Fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Biography of Donald and Malcolm Campbell. ISBN: 0901255068. Wrapper has a few small closed edge-tears and laminate is lifting from spine edge.
- Categorised in:
- TRANSPORT
- MARITIME
- MOTOR SPORT
- BIOGRAPHY
THE BOOK OF LOVAT CLAUD FRASER
Written by Haldane MacFall.
Illustrated by Claude Lovat Fraser.
Stock no. 734958
Published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd..
1st
1923.
Very good condition.
A biography of Lovat by one of his closest friends. Large format. Blue cloth spine, white pictorial boards. Decorated endpapers. Colour & b/w illustrations. Spine bumped and faded. Corners worn. Covers just slightly grubby. Name in ink to half-title page. A few hinges pulled but contents generally clean.
- Categorised in:
- ART
- ILLUSTRATED
- BIOGRAPHY
THE YOUNG CICERO
Written by James Barbary.
Illustrated by Shirley Farrow.
Stock no. 734288
Published by Max Parrish.
1st
1964.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
Famous Childhoods series. Green boards, gilt title to spine. B/w chapter headers. Minimal bumping to corners. Two names in ink to front endpapers covered with white typing fluid. Dustwrapper is edge torn and creased with minimal loss at corners.
MERLIN'S MAN
Written by Lansdale Humphreys.
Stock no. 577388
Published by P.M. Heaton Publishing.
1st
1995.
As new condition in a as new dustwrapper.
Love, War and Adventure in the Life of a Welsh Seafarer (Richard Humphreys). Green boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 187200606X.
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- WALES
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- MARITIME
- BIOGRAPHY
DAUGHTER OF WYEDEAN AND KERNOW: NOTES FROM A WEST COUNTRY CHILDHOOD
Written by Jessie M. Stonham.
Stock no. 576515
Published by Thornhill Press.
1st
1978.
Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
Autobiography. The author's childhood in Ross on Wye, her move to Weston Under Penyard, her visits to the Forest of Dean. Her long periods in Cornwall. ISBN: 0904110648.
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- WEST MIDLANDS
- HEREFORDSHIRE
- SOUTH WEST UK
- CORNWALL
- BIOGRAPHY
MIDDLESEX BIOGRAPHICAL AND PICTORIAL
No author listed.
Stock no. 576200
Published by Allan North.
1st
1906.
Very good condition.
Large format. Vellum spine. Red cloth with gilt titles. All edges gilt. Pen portraits of the worthies of Middlesex. B/w photos. Joints slightly cracked. Contents clean and bright. Vellum spine grubby.
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- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- SOUTH EAST UK
- HOME COUNTIES
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- GENEALOGY
- BIOGRAPHY
HENRY FIELDING
Written by Donald Thomas.
Stock no. 233389
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
1st
1990.
Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.
B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0297811274.
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- BIOGRAPHY
MY BUSH BABIES
Written by Iris Anderson.
Stock no. 560119
Published by MacMillan.
1st
1979.
Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
The story of the author's devotion to Australian Bushland creatures. Colour and b/w photos. ISBN: 0333252373.
- Categorised in:
- NATURAL HISTORY
- NATURAL HISTORY GENERAL
- KANGAROOS
- AUSTRALIA
- BIOGRAPHY
CHESTERFIELDS LETTERS
Written by Philip Dormer Stanhope.
Stock no. 656640
Published by J. Dodsley; Mrs. Eugenia Stanhope.
1777.
Good condition.
8th Edition. Letters written by the late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield to his son Philip Stanhope. Four volumes in two. Three-quarter black morocco binding, marbled boards, edges and endpapers. Leather worn and chipped. Name in ink to first blank page, pencil shorthand to frontis and title page of vol 1 & 2. Faded writing to title page and ink smudge to first chapter of vol 3 & 4. Else content clean and tight for a book of its age.
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- BIOGRAPHY
- ANTIQUARIAN
- LETTERS
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
AFLOAT AND ASHORE
Written by P.L. Waldron.
Illustrated by David M'C Brown.
Stock no. 682532
Published by James Munro & Company Limited.
Circa
1920.
Good condition.
The reminiscences of a Marine Engineer. Green cloth, white titles. B/w illustrations. Browning to prelims. Spine faded with a 2" tear to rear edge and also a horizontal tear at base of the vertical tear. Fading to top edge of rear cover. Front cover lightly marked. Some light foxing, mainly to textblock and prelims but contents generally clean.
CONQUEROR OF THE NIGHT
Written by J. Christiaens.
Illustrated by Edward Mortelmans.
Stock no. 612543
Published by Abelard-Schuman.
1st
1970.
Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
The story of the invention of Braille, the system of reading by touch. ISBN: 0200716301. price-cut wrapper.
GATSO THE NEVER ENDING RACE
Written by Michael Allen; Maurice Gatsonides; Rob Wiedenhoff; Piet Philippa.
Stock no. 561922
Published by Gatsometer.
1st
1993.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
The story of the famous driving dutchman Maurice Gatsonides, Gatso to his friends. Large format. Cream cloth boards, green title blocks. Colour and b/w photos. 239 pages. ISBN: 9090062262. Top edge of text block dusty. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.
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